2 Kings 4:8-20

8One day when Elisha passed through Shunem, where there was a prominent woman who persuaded him to eat some food. And so it was, whenever he passed through, he would stop for a meal.

9Then she said to her husband, “Behold now, I realize that this man who often passes through is a holy man of God.

10Please, let’s make a little walled room on the roof, and let’s put there a bed, a table, a chair, and a lampstand for him. Then whenever he comes to us, he can stay there.”

11One day he came there, and retired to the upper chamber and lay down there.

12Then he said to Gehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite woman.” When he had called her, she stood before him.

13He said to him, “Tell her: Behold, you have gone to all this trouble for us. What can be done for you? Can something be communicated to the king or to the commander of the army for you?” She answered, “I am living among my own people.”

14So he asked, “Then what should be done for her?” Then Gehazi answered, “In fact, she has no son, and her husband is old.”

15“Call her,” he said. And when he had called her, she stood in the doorway.

16Then he said, “At this season next year, you will be embracing a son.” But she said, “No, my lord, do not lie to your handmaid, man of God.”

17Nevertheless, the woman conceived and bore a son during that season the following year, just as Elisha had told her.

18Now when the child was grown, one day he went out to his father among the reapers.

19Then he said to his father, “My head, my head!” So he said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”

20So he picked him up and brought him to his mother. The child sat on her lap until noon, and then died.